Pace 2 THE CENTR DEEMOCRAT, Stories About The Authors threescore and ten years ago and the | poet left Indiana with his parents for the Pacific coast when he was nine, he still has vivid memories of the | of his early youth in the Hoosler State, Of Indiana. By EDWARD HALE BRUSH. HE state of In| diana has be | come fertile | as a literary field as to cause much com- | ment upon the fact. | Other common- | wealths are almost | anvious of the Hoosier State on ac count of its growing lHterary fame, Not content with pro- ducing a Wallace, it also sent forth In ¢ ranks of literature two very popular humorists, James Whit comb Riley and the younger genius in making folks laugh, George Ad« It is the native : in Mill er and has produce y p Charles Major, George Barr Mot eon, Meredit! icholson, "fibur Nes! y are I NO BOOTH TARKING TON. Low to th Kington, ‘utch D rary stars taking ter rue oC D be ae 2 Out; =e proj " " dry goods store A poet Mod : Hoo SAW George Barr nt good fortune to be bred, for he frst farm In Tippee Oe county, Ind, in 1566 and was duecated at the publie of lafayette Purdue ur the same | nis fayette p Ing his early fs A writer, brother of the ear toonist and Hustra tor John T Mi Cutehieon and Is ad counted a clever art ist himself The i peene of “The Sherrods” which won a | $156,000 preminm from his publishers, is | Iaid in Indiana and [inols, Among lis | other works are “Castle Craneycrow,” | “Graustark,” “Brewster's Millions” “The Day of the Dog” “Nedra” and | *Purple Parasol.” 1 on La pers dur Career Me Is n worl GEORGE B MOCUTUHEORN, Joaquin Miller, the “Poet of the Kier. ras,” is one of the brilliant galaxy of Iterary stars which has made the state of Indiana proud of {tself because it gave them to the universe. He way born In Grant county, near Jalapsa, In 1841, and, though that was close to Mr. Miller proposes to visit his boy- hood home on the occasion of his next birthday, which falls in August, and the people of the vicinity are going to { glve him a welcome at the time of his " Writing to George B. editor of the Marlon Chron- poet recently sald: I most of all things want to is the old log home which my re- “home coming. Lockwood, fcle, the “What seQ ——— pe JOAQUIN LD MA } ABO very fortie river, I want lage and 1 Sasequas brigh of tle Wher wet and of Haddon Hall” Is ndiar He was bor in 1854 and ed wnt schools of that elty “Dot also a nat in at the cou of Bhellivyvilk He sity Minn 1880 combines Indianapolis i ten and where he now resides at Michigan irried a Shelby vi Khaw, In Malor pre h the fiction univer e belle also studied He Al | Mr the f lav NN Wi of his tice © w riting Among besldes those tioned, ar of Blue River Forest 1 "and “Yolanda, Maid of Burgundy” Al Bhelbyville he shares honors as a prominent cith gon with a big chicken grower, and tha his genius is pot unappreciated in his home town Is shown by the remarks of a friend, who Is quoted as saying I have known Charley for thirty and I have never yet heard a bad word spoken against him. 1 never heard a mar fn this town say that Charley was not straight as a string and one of the best fellows In the place. Jie ain't stuck up about his monoy, either. Ile In an liberal as you get ‘em, and therd ain't nobody In town that ean say that they ever did any. thing for Charley Major that they didn’t get pall for, stories, me: Benrs “A Arih days | OHMARLES MAJOR, | years | BELLEFONTE, PA JUNE 20, 1907 Count Okuma, The Japanese Grand Old Man qu 8 good deal of frequency i ve ous, “Jaj in office r th ii Ja LISIOCrits or America founder of thelr party, son his of home Tokyo, at Waseda, mwuch as Jeff advice, leader's Like regara Thomas Jeffer. His political followers resort to in the a8 the outskirts wrson’s follow ors used to go to Mouticello for Jefferson, their he 1s a man of fine personal tastes, of culture and fortune, sity and an arist the founder in private life wrat, yet Is den political teachings. He re concern the concentrat and of population fu once ol with Mr. Ge the Mitsu Vand fortuns thirty a very have HN) « HAT is the [feeling America In Ja “What Is the Japan in tions that about pan?’ and feeling about Amerlea?' are are nsked 1 the vers ¢ for nison, lon and th In being countries, and the an sys adviser “They wan it they would wi who bh pan in a Now The Teeth pa of t nid water red wture of nn used ns a gargle, & +4 of n BOIMEeW ocratic gnrds of ¢ sin univer. vhat of in hls with wenlth yreh in a Ser DO YOU APPRECIATE style and durability in Shoes? Do you insist on comfort and servicea- bility at a resonable price? If you do you will be interested in the Shoes and Oxfords we have to (far Come in and try a pairon. The chances are you will take them with you. MINGLE'S SHOE STORE BELLEFONTE. Girl With Noisy Hose. 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